It is the intent of this section to provide criteria and standards for new neighborhood and community shopping centers in areas not presently zoned for commercial purposes and for enlarging existing commercially zoned areas. The SC Districts are intended for a unified grouping, in 1 or more buildings, of retail shops and stores that provide for the regular needs and for the convenience of families residing in the adjacent residential neighborhoods or in the larger community, respectively.
(A) Permitted principal uses and structures.
(1) Retail establishments, including supermarkets, drugstores, bakeries, meat markets, liquor stores, hardware, paint, wallpaper stores, camera shops, florist shops, gift shops, hobby shops, stationery stores, book stores, apparel shops, shoe stores, variety stores, jewelry stores, stores for sales of gardening supplies and equipment;
(2) Eating and drinking establishments;
(3) Personal service establishments, including barber shops, beauty shops, cleaning and laundry agencies, shoe repair shops, repair establishments for household articles and appliances, except those with internal combustion engines; and
(4) Offices and studios, medical and dental offices and clinics, financial institutions; provided, however, that all sales, services, storage and display shall be within completely enclosed buildings and that no goods shall be produced except for sale at retail on the premises.
(B) Permitted accessory uses and structures. Uses and structures which are customarily accessory and clearly incidental and subordinate to permitted principal uses and structures, as stated and restricted above, and which do not involve operations or structures not in keeping with the character of the district; provided, however, that waste products shall be kept in closed containers, and that the containers shall not be visible from residential areas, from portions of the premises customarily open to customer parking or customer-pedestrian or automotive traffic, or from public ways.
(C) Prohibited uses and structures.
(1) Signs not relating to the identification of the premises and occupants and to products sold or services rendered on the premises;
(2) Outdoor advertising;
(3) Filling stations;
(4) Outdoor storage, sales, display or service (other than delivery to automobiles of goods purchased by customers in stores);
(5) The playing of music or making of announcements directly or through mechanical devices in a manner audible at any residential boundary; and
(6) In general, any uses or structures not of a nature specifically permitted herein.
(D) Dimensional requirements.
(1) Lot area. Minimum lot area shall be 3 acres.
(2) Site development requirements; minimum requirements. The requirements for minimum yards in SC Districts shall be equivalent to the minimum yard requirements in any adjoining zoning district(s).
(3) Additional requirements. The Zoning Authority may, as a condition of preliminary or final approval, require specific conditions and safeguards as they deem necessary to ensure that the SC development will not adversely affect surrounding property, and that it will carry out the general objective and purpose of this chapter. Such specific conditions and safeguards may include, but not be restricted to:
(a) Setbacks or yard requirements in excess of the minimum requirements;
(b) Landscape development and maintenance, including walkways and ornamental plantings to break up large expanses of pavement in parking lots, and screening for protection of adjoining residential areas;
(c) Screening from view by walls, fences or other construction;
(d) Design and placement of outdoor lighting and signs; and
(e) Design of vehicular and pedestrian facilities.
(4) Building height. No building shall exceed 35 feet in height except for flagpoles, antennas, chimneys and similar accessories to buildings, which are exempt from this height limitation.
(E) Off-street parking and loading.
(1) Off-street parking. For each 1,000 square feet of gross floor area in buildings, 5.5 off-street parking spaces shall be provided.
(2) Off-street loading. Adequate off-street loading facilities separate from required off-street parking facilities shall be provided at the rear or side of or beneath the shopping center buildings.
(F) Limitation on signs. No sign intending to be read from off the premises shall be permitted except:
(1) One sign with 1 square foot of surface area for each 1 lineal foot of lot adjacent to a public street for purpose of general identification of the entire premises, as “Shopping Center,” in any event not to exceed 150 square feet. In addition, 1 sign with 1 square foot or surface area for each 1 lineal foot of building frontage, not to exceed 80 square feet.
(2) Such signs shall refer only to the name and nature of the business conducted in the building and to goods and services offered, and shall be mounted flat against the wall or window of the building or on marquees or awnings. No sign may project more than 1 foot from the wall to which it may be attached.
(Ord. 81-1, passed 7-10-1981)